[Josh Snider]

https://www.zeitanker.com/content/tools/zeitanker_tools/zeitanker_annotation_edit

there ya go. i figured out the main problem i was having with it. i’m still figuring out if i like it over all or not though.

Josh

[Josh Snider]

MacCaption looks like a really good program, it’s pricy though…thanks for the link.

I tried the QT Text Tracker. It works really well, except that it doesn’t allow me to create a black outline around my subtitles. That’s the only drawback. But thanks for that idea too,

If anyone’s used Belle Nuit or Annotation Edit, let me know what you think.

Josh

[Josh Snider]

MacCaption looks like a really good program, it’s pricy though…thanks for the link.

I tried the QT Text Tracker. It works really well, except that it doesn’t allow me to create a black outline around my subtitles. That’s the only drawback. But thanks for that idea too,

If anyone’s used Belle Nuit or Annotation Edit, let me know what you think.

Josh

[Josh Snider]

Unfortunately my boss charged by the job on this, so I don’t have the option of charging by the hour.
I think there are options other than long-hand in FCP. In fact, I was able to do everything in Quicktime’s Text Tracker, except for that its text outlining function doesn’t work properly. Since I need my subtitles outlined, it was a no-go. But I can give you the method for that if u’re interested.

J

[Josh Snider]

This might sound stupid, but what do you mean by ‘burn them in’?

Josh

[Josh Snider]

Hey Jeremy, it looks like Quicktime could do what I need, but I don’t understand the last step involved. It says to ‘Import’ my text descriptor file into QT (I’m using QT Pro 7.4.1), but I don’t see an import option in the File Menu.
Have you ever combined a text descriptor with a QT movie?

Thanks, Josh

[Josh Snider]

hey bogiesan, what i’m having trouble with is NOT the export, it has to do with how the image looks AFTER rendering, but PRIOR to export.
This step below is what I’m having the most trouble with:
‘You’re bringing in full rez tiffs from PP that have small text and you are placing them into your custom sequence. That will introduce significant resolution issues since text cannot be rendered to any video or motion codec directly from tiffs and maintain anything that resembles the original resolution. It is a function of the conversion from still image to video.’

Maybe the question is, what format should we save these in, if tiffs are no good? (the tiffs are exported from both PP and Photoshop)

Raf, we tried a bunch of different compressor options in the sequence settings. Uncompressed 8 and 10 bit and None all worked the best. In fact, None looked just as good as 8 bit Uncompressed. So we went with that over 8 bit, so as not to eat up too much rendering time. But we’ll go with 8 bit Uncompressed if that’s what you feel works the best.

Hope this all makes sense. thanx, josh

[Josh Snider]

we are using footage off of 3 hour DVCAM tapes, captured in at 720×480. But that is shrunk down and cropped to fit into a small kinda TV box within a template made in photoshop. we’ve viewed it both on an external monitor and on the computer screen. but the final output is a downloadable .mp4, about 200MB in size, so it makes more sense for us to view it on the computer, in Quicktime.

The whole template is 744×398. We have tiffs exported from powerpoint, being displayed to the side of the video, which might be at about 512×384, but I haven’t checked the sizes of the video or slides to be honest.
The main problem is the smaller text, anywhere it comes up on the screen, whether as part of the tiff slides or as text components of the photoshop template.
but, again, it just doesn’t make sense to me that it would look normal pre-render, and then crappy after rendering….let me know any ideas

thanks

[Josh Snider]

Thanks, I’ll check out the article.
…You know I had never thought about networking my Mac to a PC. Can that be done pretty easily through firewire? there wouldn’t be the same format issues involved that the external hard drives have?
I guess that’d depend on if I end up getting a desktop or a Mac Mini. The people I’m sharing files with are 40 miles away, so that was the reason I was thinking external hard drive.

Josh

[Josh Snider]

…as an added twist, immediately after I wrote this post, I played the tape in my PD-150, and miraculously the footage was there.
So, I then double-checked on my JVC GR-DVF, and again, no footage…no timecode.
As a note, when this happened the first time around, I checked the tape on BOTH my JVC GR-DVF AND my PD-150, and there was no footage nor timecode on either one.

So I’m uploading this to computer as fast as I can, before it *disappears*, and then will hopefully get some valuable feedback from you all.

Thanks, Josh